Treasury Lafe In Blackout Marks Wartime Test
Washington recorded the capital's first wartime blackout lasting 15 minutes. Lights leaked from upper hotel floors and the Federal Works Agency building at 14th and E Streets. no accidents or crimes were reported while Police Chief Ma Filward Kelly praised orderly conduct.
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Washington
Treasury
Pennsylvania Avenue
Federal Works Agency
14Th
E& Streets
Filward Kelly
Byward
Mayor Signs Kind to Animals Week Proclamation
In Salt Lake City on April 18 Mayor Ab Jenkins signed a Be Kind to Animals Week proclamation. He then faced a citizen protest demanding action on the stray dog nuisance in the city.
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Salt Lake City
Ab Jenkins
Herbal remedy ad for Herbine from Cretney Drug Store
An old classified style ad promotes Herbine as a reliable laxative and cathartic to relieve headaches biliousness and the tired feeling due to temporary constipation. It urges readers to ask for Herbine at Cretney Drug Store.
Property Owners Learn Defense Area Rent Rules
Amarillo property owners and rental brokers are invited to a 2:00 PM sectional meeting at the Amarillo hotel to learn how defense area rules affect rentals and how to avoid federal rent control. J C Mytinger will lead, with local organizers forming the committee. The session is free and part of a two day business clinic preparing for incoming defense workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
J. C. Mytinger
Wichita Falls
Tom W. Cotten
Hugo H. Loewenstern
J. Hal Brown
Amarillo Realtors
Passenger Service Suspended in China
Regular highway passenger service in southwest China was suspended due to gasoline shortages from the Burma Road disruption caused by the Japanese invasion of Burma. Commercial and military trucks will continue to operate and may carry a limited number of passengers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
China
Burma
Businessmen to Explore Future in Amarillo Clinic
Amarillo hosts first general meeting of a business clinic to discuss problems from rapid construction and worker influx. Six Wichita Falls men, led by Col. E A Simpson, will speak and answer questions with sectional sessions planned for tomorrow afternoon. R. Mills Tittle of Perkins-Timberlake stores is among presenters. No admission fee or membership drive.
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Amarillo
Wichita Falls
Col. E A. Simpson
Chamber of Commerce
R. Mills Tittle
Perkins - Timberlake
Joe Cooley
Nybody
M. A. Browning
Eli P. Cox
Texan Returns to U S Forces After RCAF Service
L. H. Tex Witherspoon a Texan formerly with the Royal Canadian Air Force traded his RCAF lieutenant’s rank for a U S Naval Air Force lieutenant junior grade commission. He expressed eagerness to fight in the Pacific theater and has ties to Chillicothe Texas and Fort Worth. He enlisted in 1940 as an aerial navigation instructor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Royal Canadian Air Force
L. H
Tex) Witherspoon
U. S. Naval Air Force
Witherspoon
Childress
Tex
Fort Worth
RCAF
Promotion slip mix up at Goodfellow Field
Private First Class Joseph G. Pfluger received a warrant stating he was promoted to colonel. The error was a typographical slip and the rank was corrected to corporal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goodfellow Field
San Angelo
Tex
Joseph G. Pfluger
Radio Schedule Highlights for Wednesday Evening
Radio programs run from morning through night on KGN 1440 and NBC network. Notable talks, dramas, music acts, news, and sports segments feature The Treasury Presents Deep River Boys Mr District Attorney and Kay Kvner's College of Musical Knowledge alongside multiple NBC shows.
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NBC
the Treasury
Deep River Boys
Kay Kvner
College of Musical Knowledge
John Josey
Author’s Playhouse
Radio Schedule Highlights 1930s CBS and NBC Lineup
A dense listing of radio programs across networks CBS and NBC including Captain Midnight Easy Aces Amos and Andy Fulton Lewis Lanny Ross and His Songs Thats broadcast schedule for wartime era. It notes multiple dramatic serials news commentaries and musical programs with times and channel blocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cbs
Brewster Boy
Joe Kelly
Cal Tinney
Dancing Music Orchestra
Uncle Alter
Doghouse
Nbe
Manhattan
Blue Jean Hersholt
Christian
Mbs
Elmer Davis
Cbs DC
Eddie Cantor
Shirley Temple
Gabriel Heatter
Mbs Bas
Cairo
Mba
Abe
Red Cab Calloway
The
Quizzicale
Blue
Ransom Sherman
Miss Meade
Kay Kyser
Basin Street
Paul Laval Orch
Glenn Miller
John B. Hughes
Cbs Dafice Orches
Morgan Beatty
War
World News Broadcasting
Jean Cavall
Blue Dean Padre
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Cretney Drug Store
Lai
Fed
Diamond Shop
Polk
JEWEL
Bulova
Blackstone Cleaners
10Th Ave
U. S
Indianapolis
Pearl Prout
Grugelett
Nurito Skantee
Borders
Dee Cuan
KGN
Sky Pilot
the Trading Post
Newa
Johnny Stone
Mary Lee Taylor
the Bartons
Vic and Sade
David Harum
Guiding Light
National Farm and Home Hour
Panhandie A. & M
Lew White
Texas Rangers
Sagan Review
Fulton Lewis, Jr
Herbie Holmes
Lone Ranger
Hank Keene
Symphonies of the Sage
Ted Steele
Novatones
Merrymakers
Frank Cuhel
Dan Dunphy
Sammy Kaye
Earle Towner Orch
Pancho
Hollywood
the Cheerup Gang
Merritt Ruddock
Battle of the Wits
Winstop Duzzit
Texas School of the Air
TQN
Bob Hamilton
Ma Perkins
Pepper Young
Stella Dallas
Lorenzo Jones
Young Widder Brown
Portia
Connie Boswell
Colonial Network
Orch
U. S. Navy Band
Vaughn Monroe Orch
Texas Wranglers
Cedric Foster
School of the Air
Mutual
Camp Grant
Richard Eaton
Richard Crooks
Johnson Family
David Cheskin
Biff Baker
Bercovichi
Jack Armstrong
Captain Midnight
Three Suns
Bcattergood Baines
Navy
Camera Store
B Polk
First National Bank of
Fisk
RADIO
Globe News
Leonard
Nunn
Swan
Gracie Allen
George Burns
Paul Whiteman
RB Company
Cambridge
MAGS
Land OF the Free
America
Red Cross
Mrs. America
House of Heinz
Heinz Foods
Heinz
Heinz Baby Foods
H. J. Heinz Company
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